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Britain's Army chiefs refused to go to war in Iraq amid fears over its legality just days before the British and American bombing campaign was launched, The Observer can today reveal.
The explosive new details about military doubts over the legality of the invasion are detailed in unpublished legal documents in the case of Katharine Gun, the intelligence officer dramatically freed last week after Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney-General, dropped charges against her of breaking the Official Secrets Act.
The disclosure came as it also emerged that Goldsmith was forced hastily to redraft his legal advice to Tony Blair to give an 'unequivocal' assurance to the armed forces that the conflict would not be illegal.
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Downing Street last night refused to comment on the allegations. Blair's spokesman also refused to say whether the White House had been consulted over the dropping of the Gun case, despite growing conviction at Westminster that it would have been inconceivable for the Foreign Office not to have taken its closest ally's views into consideration.
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much more...
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,1158859,00.htmlThese stories about British and U.S. spying on the U.N. have greater and greater traction in Britain. How about here?
on edit, here's another article. I did a Google, and I just do not see this being reported in U.S. newspapers, at least not as a U.S. issue. There are a couple papers reporting it as a British issue only. Maybe someone else here has seen something more significant.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1158906,00.htmlI had no choice, says GCHQ whistleblower
Martin Bright
Sunday February 29, 2004
The Observer
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The GCHQ whistleblower who walked free from court last week after the Government dropped secrecy charges against her says Tony Blair lost all moral credibility when he went to war in Iraq without the backing of the United Nations.
Speaking in her first major interview since the collapse of the trial, Katharine Gun told The Observer she now believes that President Bush and Blair always intended to go to war.
The 29-year-old Mandarin-language expert, speaking at a secret location, said the email she leaked last February showed that Britain and the United States were prepared to go to any lengths, including bribery and blackmail, to get the United Nations Security Council to authorise war with Iraq at the beginning of last year.
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much more....why aren't these headlines in the U.S.????
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